Improved chemical compound for the manufacture of medicated gas



UNITED STATES PATENT .OEEIoE.

A. H. CARPENTER, NEW YORK, N. Y.

lMPROVED CHEMICAL COMPOUND FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF MEDICATED GASSpecification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,179, dated October30, 1866.

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM H. CARPEN- TER, of the city, county, andState of New York, have invented a new and Improved Chemical Compoundfor Medicated Inhalations; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable othersskilled in the art to fully understand and make use of the same.

This invention or discovery consists in forming a compound of varioussalts and chemical ingredients, which are converted into a gas undersuch conditions as to become highly charged with oxygen and permanentlymagnetized, for the treatment of diseases by the inhalation of the gas.Theinhalations of this medicated ga s are breathed directly into thelungs, and through them carried into the blood, expelling all impuritiesfrom the system.

The ingredients ot'my medical compound are as follows: No. 1, ammonia,nitrate, eighty-five parts; No. 2, potassa, nitrate, three parts; N0. 3,potassium, iodide, one part, No. 4, potassa, chlorate, five parts; No.5, alumina, sulphate, three parts; No. 6, soda, biborate, three parts,making one hundred parts. These ingredients, in the above proportions,are to be well mixed and put in aglass or porcelain retort, which issubjected to a gentle heat until the salts are thoroughly combined ordissolved. The wires of a galvanic battery are then introduced into theretort below the chemical substances, and a powerful current ofelectricity is passed through the mass during one hour, or there about,until it cools and granulates under the action of the electricity, asshown by the accompanyin g sample of the chemical compound marked No. 7.

This chemical compound is then converted into gas in a proper apparatus,in the ordinary way, by the application of heat, which gas is conveyedinto a glass jar or other vessel, in which it may be kept hermeticallysealed until it is used.

The manner of applying or inhaling the gas is the common method employedby means of rubber or other elastic bags.

It is perfectly harmless with the most deli cate constitutions, and hasbeen administered to thousands of patients with the happiest re sults,oxidizing and purifying the blood, and

in cases of acute diseasessuch as neuralgia,

inflammatory rheumatism, asthma, and others of the same classaffordinginstant relief.

Having described the composition and method of compounding and applyingmy iiivention or discovery, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

Compounding certain chemical salts in the manner and proportions hereinspecified, for producing an electro-lnedical gas, to be used and appliedin the manner and for the purposes herein described.

, ABRAHAM H. CARPENTER.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MCNAMARA, ALEX. F. RoBERTs.

